Drawer-stop.



No. 816,574. PATENTED APR. 3, 1906. a. T. & H. GARDEN.

DRAWER STOP.

- APPLICATION FILED JUNE 17. 1905.

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CHARLES T. GARDEN AND HARRY GARDEN OF MACON, GEORGIA.

* DRAWER-STOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 3, 1906.

i0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES T. GARDEN and HARRY GARDEN, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Macon, in the county of Bibb and State ofGeorgia, have invented a new and useful Drawer-Stop, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to drawer-stops, and has for its object toprovide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this characteradapted to be driven into the front crossrail of a bureau, cabinet,desk, or other article of furniture for limiting the inward movement ofthe drawer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a stop produced from asingle blank of sheet metal, one edge of which is slit or cleft to forma plurality of depending attachingspurs, while the adjacent portion ofthe blank is bent laterally to produce angularly-disposed bracing-earsadapted to bear against the upper face of the cross-sill.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a bureau, showing the improvedstop in position on the front crosssill thereof. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of a portion of the bureau, showing the position of said stops onthe cross-sill. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the drawer-stops.Fig. 4c is a plan view of the sheet-metal blank from which the stopshown in Fig. 3 is produced. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a modifiedform of drawer-stop. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank for producingthe stop shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a furthermodification, and Fig. 8 is a plan view of the blank from which the stopshown in Fig. 7 is made.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawlngs.

The improved stop is designed for attachment to the upper face orsurface of the front cross-sill 5 of a bureau or other article offurniture 7, so as to limit the inward movement of the drawer 8. Thepreferred form of the device is shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4 and ispreferably produced from a single blank of sheet metal 9, one edge ofwhich is slit or cleft, as indicated at 10, to form a dependingattaching spur or prong 11, while the portion of the blank on each sideof the spur 11 is bent laterally at right angles to the upstanding orvertical body portion 12 to form a pair of spaced bracingears 13,adapted to bear against the face of the sill when the stop is properlypositioned thereon. The stops are preferably driven in the face of thesill 5 at points adjacent the opposite ends thereof, as shownin Fig. 2,although they may be disposed at any suitable spaced intervalsdesirable, and while said stops may be driven in the sill with a hammerwe have devised a speciallyconstructed tool for this purpose, which toolforms the subject-matter of a separate application.

In Figs. 5 and 6 there is illustrated a modified form of the inventionin which the blank 9 is formed with two or more slits or clefts 10, soas to produce a plurality of attachingspurs, the number of such spursdepending upon the length of the stop, as will be readily understood.

In Figs. 7 and 8 there is illustrated a further modification in whichthe lower edge of the blank 9 is provided with a V-shaped slit and thecontiguous metal bent upwardly to form bracing-ears having theiradjacent edges inclined, as indicated at 14, thereby strengthening theears and at the same time economizing in the use of material.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that when the drawer ismoved to closed position further inward movement thereof will beeffectually prevented by engagement with the stops, the latter beingbraced against the impact of the drawer by reason of thelaterally-extending ears.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A drawer-stopcomprising a body portion having a depending attaching-spur andangularly-disposed bracing-ears.

2. A drawer-stop comprising a body portion having a dependingattaching-spur and a plurality of spaced angularly-disposed bracing-ears.

3. A drawer-stop comprising a body portion having a dependingattaching-spur and a pair of spaced bracing-ears disposed at rightangles to said body portion.

4. A drawer-stop comprising a body portion having angularly-disposedbracing-ears and a plurality of depending attaching-spurs.

5. A drawer-stop comprising a verticallydisposed body portion having anintegral depending attaching-spur extending in the same plane therewith,said body portion being provided with angularly-disposed bracing-ears.

6. A drawer-stop comprising a body porl blank to form :angularlydisposedbracingtion having a pair of spaced angularly-disl ears. Y posedbracing-ears, and a depending attach- In testimony that weclainitheforegoing as ing-spur extending from the body portion beour ownwe have hereto afliXed our signal 5 tween sald bracing-ears. l tures 1nthe presence of two witnesses.

7. As an article of manufacture, a drawer- CHARLES T. GARDEN stop,produced from a single metal blank one HARRY GARDEN. edge of which iscleft to form a depending at- Witnesses: taching-spur and the metal oneach side of JOHN E. WVILsoN,

10 said cleft bent upwardly at right angles to the W. A. WISNER.

